Good Grief with Cheryl Jones

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July 12th 2017:Living the Fullest to the Very End

Until recently, very little attention was paid to the quality of our lives at the very end of our lives. But that is changing, fueled by patient demand but also by a group of medical practitioners who are passionate about making sure everything possible is done to empower people at the end of life. At the forefront of this movement are the palliative care doctors who help seriously ill and dying people navigate the territory they have entered, often unprepared. Shoshana Ungerleider took her own work as a palliative care doctor (and teacher) a step further, creating a foundation that supports w

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Shoshana Ungerleider

Shoshana Ungerleider, MD is an internist practicing hospital medicine in San Francisco, California. She received her medical degree from Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, OR and completed residency at California Pacific Medical Center where she is now on the teaching faculty and serves on the Foundation Board of Trustees. Dr. Ungerleider is passionate about improving how seriously ill patients are cared for throughout the continuum of life. She founded the Ungerleider Fund to support innovative programs that further palliative care education at every level. She was a major funder of Extremis, the Academy Award nominated short documentary on end-of-life decision-making in the